# Crowdsignal review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Polls, surveys and quizzes from the makers of WordPress.com Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Crowdsignal builds polls, surveys, ratings and quizzes that can be shared by link or embedded in a site. It is made by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and also ships as a WordPress plugin. Plans are limited by signals, meaning individual answers, rather than by the number of surveys. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** Automattic - **Website:** https://crowdsignal.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you run long surveys, because each answer counts as a signal and 2,500 goes fast. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Crowdsignal has a free plan, and paid plans start at $15 per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Unlimited questions, surveys, polls and ratings, collecting up to 2,500 signals, with Crowdsignal branding and limited data export. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Unlimited surveys, polls and ratings, up to 2,500 signals, Crowdsignal branding, limited export and 1 MB uploads. | | Premium | $15 per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) | Unlimited signals, branching logic, Google Sheets sync, export, priority email support and 5 MB uploads. | | Business | $45 per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | No Crowdsignal branding, custom CSS and domain, email surveys up to 50k a month, advanced API access. | | Team | $29 per user / month, billed annually | Business features plus shared accounts for up to 3 users, shared themes and templates, and 10 MB uploads. | Read from https://crowdsignal.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Crowdsignal before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows Premium at $15 a month billed annually against $25 monthly, and Business at $45 against $59. Source: https://crowdsignal.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Polls, surveys and quizzes:** Unlimited questions, surveys, polls, ratings and quizzes on every plan; the free plan stops at 2,500 signals. - **Branching logic:** Premium and above support branching and logic trees so respondents see only the questions that apply. - **Embedding:** Polls and media can be embedded in a website, and the company also offers a WordPress plugin. - **Data sync and export:** Premium connects to Google Sheets and exports responses; Business adds other services and an advanced API. - **Email surveys:** Business can send surveys by email, up to 50,000 a month. - **Team workspace:** The Team plan lets several users edit surveys together and share themes, templates and assets, with a 3-user team limit. ## Good for - WordPress site owners adding polls and ratings - Small teams that want unlimited surveys with a response cap rather than a survey cap - Anyone who wants a 30-day money-back window on paid plans ## Worth knowing - A signal is one answer: a five-question survey completed once counts as five signals, so the free 2,500 goes quickly. - Past 2,500 signals the free plan keeps collecting but hides the extra answers until you upgrade. - Branding removal, custom domain and the advanced API need Business at $45 a month billed annually. - Premium and Business are shown with a 40% and 25% discount against their monthly price when billed annually. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Crowdsignal makes polls, surveys and quizzes, from the people behind WordPress.com. The free plan counts every answer as a signal and stops showing responses after 2,500, and dropping the branding means Business at $45 a month. - **Value for money: C.** Premium is $15 a month billed yearly, in the ordinary band for form and survey tools. Business is $45. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free gives unlimited surveys but only 2,500 signals, with branding and limited export. A five-question survey answered once uses five signals. - **Features: C.** Branching, embedding, email surveys and team workspaces cover the basics. Past 2,500 signals answers are collected but hidden until you pay. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build each poll or survey yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with Google Sheets and WordPress named as connections. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Crowdsignal's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among form and survey tools - Crowdsignal's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 60 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 8. - Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $19.50 for the category: 15 of the 51 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/forms ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A form at its plainest is questions, a button and a table of answers. You could make the core of Crowdsignal for yourself: surveys, forms, templates and reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $180 a year. - You could make: Surveys, forms, templates and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Sheets and WordPress among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Sheets, WordPress **Tags:** Surveys, Forms, Templates, Public API, Reports ## Alternatives - [SurveyMonkey](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveymonkey): Online survey and form platform with built-in analysis tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdsignal-vs-surveymonkey) - [Typeform](https://toolgpa.com/tools/typeform): Form, survey and quiz builder with logic, AI and video questions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdsignal-vs-typeform) - [Surveyplanet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surveyplanet): Survey maker with unlimited free surveys and responses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdsignal-vs-surveyplanet) - [Opinion Stage](https://toolgpa.com/tools/opinion-stage): Quiz, poll, survey and form maker for lead capture. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdsignal-vs-opinion-stage) - [Jotform](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jotform): No-code form builder with payments, e-signatures and workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crowdsignal-vs-jotform) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://crowdsignal.com/pricing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/crowdsignal Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).